[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 36, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 36CFR805.4]

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              TITLE 36--PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
                     CHAPTER VIII--ADVISORY COUNCIL
                        ON HISTORIC PRESERVATION
 
PART 805--PROCEDURES FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 805.4  Ensuring environmental documents are actually considered in Council decisionmaking.

    (a) Section 1505.1 of the NEPA regulations (40 CFR 1505.1) contains 
requirements to ensure adequate consideration of environmental documents 
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agency decisionmaking. To implement these requirements the Council 
shall:
    (1) Consider all relevant environmental documents in evaluating 
proposals for action;
    (2) Ensure that all relevant environmental documents, comments, and 
responses accompany the proposal through internal Council review 
processes;
    (3) Consider only those alternatives encompassed by the range of 
alternatives discussed in the relevant environmental documents when 
evaluating proposals for the Council action; and,
    (4) Where an environmental impact statement (EIS) has been prepared 
consider the specific alternative analyzed in the EIS when evaluating 
the proposal which is the subject of the EIS.
    (b) For each of the Council's principal activities covered by NEPA, 
the following chart identifies the point at which the NEPA process 
begins, the point at which it ends, and the key officials required to 
consider environmental documents in their decisionmaking.

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                                                                                          Key officials required
               Activity                 Start of NEPA process      Completion of NEPA          to consider
                                                                        process          environmental documents
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Recommendations for legislation......  During staff             Prior to submission to   Executive Director and
                                        formulation of           Congress or OMB.         full Council, as
                                        proposal.                                         appropriate.
Regulations and procedures...........  Prior to publication of  Prior to publication of  Executive Director and
                                        draft regulations in     final regulations in     full Council as
                                        Federal Register.        Federal Register.        appropriate.
Policy recommendations...............  During staff             Prior to adoption by     Executive Director and
                                        formulation of           full Council or          full Council, as
                                        proposal.                Executive Director.      appropriate.
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